Technologies: Boon, Bane of Bewilderment - 26 Nov 2021

TECHNOLOGY: Boon, Bane, or Bewilderment Friday, 26 November 2021 6:00 pm - 7.30 pm MMA Management Center

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Tea at 5:15 PM

Around us, in the Universe we exist in, there are two and only two universal entities - Nature and Technology. It is nobody's argument that technology is the foundation for the spawning of all civilizations, and will continue to be so.

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We have reached a stage of technological progress, which is providing us with sufficient evidence (early enough?) of our imperative to balance our existence with respect to both. But, to what extent are our lives balanced? Given the observable state of some of the macro indicators and features of development pertaining to our existence, such as increased life expectancy, sharp population boom, rapid urbanization, steady increase of energy supply per capita, slow growth of hospital beds and medical specialists per capita, questionable water availability per capita, massive growth of internet population, hyper exponential data and information proliferation including moment-tomoment communication exchanges among billions of us, changes in the number and nature of crimes, disturbing levels of greenhouse gases, air, water and land pollution, and biodiversity loss, the eager(?) lunge towards carbon neutrality,

the

unsatiable

levels

of

individual

and

social

desire

for

comfort

and

convenience,

the

frightening

capability to destroy our planet 'n' times over with weapon systems, and several others, a question of balance stares us in the face. So, is technology a boon, bane or bewilderment that we have to respectively benefit from, contend with or resolve in our struggles to realize the so-far-elusive balance?

Registration & High Tea

6:00 PM

Welcome Address

EMMARGORP

5:15 PM

Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association

Opening Remarks by the Chairman

Mr Raju Venkatraman Founder, Medall Healthcare Pvt Ltd Past President, MMA

Address by the Speaker

Dr L S Ganesh Professor (Retd.)

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Q&A Session Concluding Remarks by the Chairman 7:30 PM

Vote of Thanks

Mr Raju Venkatraman

Dr. L. S. Ganesh (LSG) has a BE (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering of BITS Pilani, an MTech in Applied Mechanics and a Merit Prize, and a PhD from IIT Madras having completed his doctoral thesis in the Industrial Engineering and Management faculty of the Institute.

He worked as an Associate Fellow at NIEPA New Delhi during 1984-86, and then as an Assistant Professor at IIM Bangalore during 1986-87, before commencing his tenure at IIT Madras, first in the Industrial Engineering and Management faculty of the Department of Humanities and Social

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Sciences, and then in the Department of Management Studies from which he retired in July 2020.

He had served as the Head of the Department during 2004-08, and as the Dean (Students) of the Institute during 2011-2014 in addition to fulfilling several other official Institutional responsibilities.

He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Passau in Germany, the Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore and Kozhikode, the Indian School of Business at Hyderabad, the National Institute of Technology at Trichy, and other national-level and sub-regional Institutions.

Dr L S Ganesh

LSG has been conferred the Distinguished Fellow award of the Project Management Institute (India) and the Distinguished Professor award of the Computer Society of India (Mumbai). He has also been conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the BITS Pilani Alumni Association (New Delhi) and the IIT Madras Alumni Association Award for distinguished services.

He serves as a member of the Board of Governors at IIM Trichy and IIT Palakkad, and offers his advisory services to the Governing and Academic Bodies of several other Institutions.

He

strongly

believes

that

India

and

Indians

have

exceptional

capabilities

that

require

well

directed and intensely focused organizational efforts to enable them to fully flow and result in inspiring, peerless and timeless achievements.

Mr Raju Venkatraman is a serial entrepreneur, who has built several companies and sold 3 companies and taken one company public. In his career, he has done outsourcing deal worth over 2 Billion dollars, managed 25,000 plus employees and raised over 700 million dollars of equity, Mezannine, FCCB and bank loans.

Raju has travelled to over 38 countries and has done business in 18 countries, set up

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operation and managed operations in 11 countries.

He is the Founder of Medall Healthcare. Medall has grown to 1700 people with over 100 MD radiologists and pathologists.

Medall

is

already

India’s

largest

Radiology

services

company

and

is

the

4th

largest

Diagnostics services company in India.

Raju Venkatraman

Raju has won several accolades and awards including American Dreamers Award, India Today’s top 10 fastest growing companies, Business India’s top 100 entrepreneurs from India, Serial entrepreneur award from TiE and Tamil Nadu Government.

He is an alumnus of IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad.

He is married to Raji Raju and has 2 children Roshni and Roshan. He is a passionate basketball player and also a lover of south Indian carnatic music and bhajans.

Mr Raju Venkatraman was the President of Madras Management Association for the year 2014-15.

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